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Show BEN LOMOND BEACON, fliUJalIfi)tfS by Carol Shaw I think it was great! It was a lot of fun! I really learned a lot! These are some of the comments heard about Weber Districts second annual By Carol Shaw One of the drawbacks of an being independent woman is that baleful ordeal balancing a checkbook. After troubling over the hyeroglyphics in my check register for several hours, I was thoroughly convinced that repentance was in order. I definitely needed to turn over a new leaf-i- f I could only figure out what balance to write at the top of the new leaf. No more unbusinesslike entries such as, Wrong place! What in the world was the intended meaning of that diatribe? Or how about, gs Dog ce duplicate. Was the check rebundant and needing to be disregarded or did I buy two dog licenses. It might have helped some if all of the checks were listed. I had forgotten to write down 3. Hut the worst confusion seemed to come from the fact that the dates and numbers in the check register not only didnt correspond to the ones on the returned checks, but they were also not always in consecutive or- der. Resolutely, I battled through, grimly determined to for drastic action. Sheepishly, I slunk into the baink and asked for help. Have you ever seen a bank officer turn all purplely and tear angry holes in a checkbook with her red pen? Quite an experience! When she finally finished, she sat staring at me, her mouth gaping open, for a full 3 minutes. I cant belive it! she gasped, eyes agog. InAfter going credible! through all of this maze, you came out exactly right! To the penny! The bank made a 20 cent mistake, in your favor. We will charge you for it. STORK NEWS Curtis and Susan Culver, 574 E. 1900 N., girl, March 9. David E. and Ann Burton Nuttall, 3945 N. 975 E., girl, March 9. Berrett Carter Gary and Patricia Harrisville Road, Fife, 263 girl, March 10. Bruce L. and ConStone nie Larson, 749 E. 2850 N., North Ogden, girl, March 10. Scott E. and Horspool Michelle Loosli, 583 E. 1850 N., North Ogden, boy, March dation, a organization non-prof- it established to aid the schools through volunteer the help, Economics Fair was born. Money was donated to the district to finance the fair and the idea began to grow. Virtually every grade in every school participated in the Fair this year. Jim Brown the manager of the Family Bank at Five Points, participated in the fair by inviting some winning students to visit the bank for a day and learn about its operations first hand. He said that there were many businesses that did the same thing. I think its great! said Mr. Brown. Unfortunately, a lot of students in school, have a misconception of how just profitable . SirDImilD(SS feSir lrDjy minimum amount of work done got to go. All of the projects were not done on a class basis, however. Especially on the secondary level, many of them were done by individuals or small groups. with. The class s learned many things about many phases of the free enterprise system, as they formed a cor- time talking to students poration, sold stock, bought groups in the schools for ' Career Days. This is not near the same, he asserts, indicating the students learn far more by first hand ex- perience. Pat Hotchkiss, a fifth grade teacher at North Ogden Elementary School, would agree, wholeheartedly. (Hers and Dale Wrides team took First place in the district on the Elementary level.) Every child in the class said Mrs. And every . Hotchkiss participated, child learned 2 things. Every child learned that you have to have money to make money and it takes hard work. She said that she thought it was very important for the . kids to learn about Americas free enterprise system, but that they also learned something else that was of great value. For the first time in some of their lives, every single child felt success, asserted Mrs. Hotchkiss. She explained that in most other contests the high achievers excell. The North Ogden class took the fiurst prize over classes in 23 elementary schools. They won $500 for the school to buy educational material materials, and supplies, borrowed money, manufac- tured games, packaged them, sold them on a commission basis, figured profit, paid dividends and finally Trisha Messerly and Karen Hancock, from Wahlquist Jr. High, took Frist place in the district for Marketing, in the. 7th grade, with their project. it They made Christmas pep-perm- ropes and sold them. These were wall hangings done wrong? I went through the whole jungle again. This time I came up with a completely different answer. Good guppies! This called smell. The kids are already thinking about what to do for next year. disolved the company and paid off the stock holders. The stock buying was controlled to the extent that everyone had a chance to buy stock, but some bought more than others. Each kid earned money according to how much stock he bought, as it cost 10 cents a share and was worth 74 cents a share when the company was liquidated. Most of the kids earned around $5 Kids also earned money on the commissions from sales. The corporation asked Joel Rush, the manager of the First Security Bank, in North Ogden, to act as a con- sultant for them. Each class member opened a savings account where he or she put some of his earnings. Now every Wedbank nesday they have day at school where they may add to or take away from their accounts. One of the things the kids soon discovered was that some of them worked harder than others. To get everyone going, they had an incentive movie. Only those who had a FIFTH GRADERS tary at North Ogdan division of Elementary took first place in the elemenWeber District's Economics Fair. Pictured are Dena Douglas, Tom Colvin, Susan Reed and Doug Marker. 1 This is not just any ordinary . . . 14. ch 15. Harrison Dick W. and 274 E. 3100 N., North Ogden, girl, March 16. Janice Fay Walters, by Kris Ewert However, this story is not but is about closely related to them. There was a youth in the 1920's who had saved his money for several years and he finally bought a seconds, hand package. This was one of the foremost cars of the day and rated along with the Cadallac, Pierce Arrow and Winston, and other big, fine autos of those days. tivity.) The Roy road reached about a mile from the regular highway and pursued a path that led down a rather steep hill. Precisely at the bottom of the hill the railroad had lain tracks across the road. Passenger trains and J C An anonymous writer once I penned these words, should always distrust the man who raves of beauty in distant lands and under foreign skies, yet has never awakened to the beauty within five miles of the place where he is living. Perhaps it is this very attitude that has endeared me to the Plain City residents with whom it has Grandmothers critical cont. from page 2 been my good fortune to strike up an aquaintance. There seems to be an unconsciously united effort to bring out that which is good and make it better and to beauty through effort and attitude. While watching the bookmobile volunteers today, I was struck once more with an awareness of people working together grade. But too later They discovered a freight train stretched across the path. No one knows why they didn't see the freight train sooner. It might have been because of the fact that going down hill, as they were, the headlights of the car flashed beneath the train and not directly on it, as the headlights would do under normal circumstances. The result? Four dead youths, the owner of the car 825-16- 66 munity, bustling with ac FAMILY BANK EMPLOYE, Jamina Stidham, shows Karan Hancock, a student from Wahlquist Junior High, how to run some of the machines at the bank. Karen spent the day at the bank as a result of being an economics fair winner. for a common good. These ladies faithfully donate their time each book mobile day to bookmobile chairwoman this year with assistance from Jean Taylor, Call one in today. Choral Hadlev. Judy Cockerham, Betty Yorgason, Pam LaRitta Chugg, Hodson, Helen Parrish, Leone Orton, and Kathy Cazier. Glenn and Diane Taylor should also be on the back patting list as their efforts commitfe and thoso-of'members anlther brought Fr'!, CELERY memorable 200-C- 5$l Sunshine &'j Golden Sait 1 Creamette 599c( 599e Spaghetti 00 Creamette Macaroni Quaker 11 . oz. lb. (feuMi 59 Corn 03 Mergerine Meadow Gold 3 Yogurt Drink -D- 1 69 f - 1099( 1.99 Chicken.. 389 Cook 'n Begs .00 Treetop AKCSY-Fronch Lt 49e AU Bill 0 -- FQOZCH Banquet Europa Can 12-o- Apple Juke 69c Popsides 79e AGXADE REG. C0UNTIY PRIDE NOT DOGS TU0KEYS $iss I 79. m-- . nnnnl tracsss f.lAEET -- ALL BREEDS We Specialize In: & ACCESSORIES SHOW SUPPLIES iio. 7Asni::6To:i SCIENCE DIET DOG & CAT FOOD OGDEN Open 6 AM to 6 PM Mon. Sat Free Parting 1.09 Scltines - DAISY - DOG & CAT GROOMING -- 499 Box Com Bran Cereal PERSONALIZED WALL AVE. 399cfl Macaroni & Cheese PROFESSIONAL 6 CAT NEEDS 499 ' 303 Golden Grain PET POURRI DOG 53 Peas ORANGES .09 itm.C Tostewell Brood 392-36- 52 Regular Spaghettis Yogurt Tos cirs 1 15'-o- LARGE NAVEL 17V t. Kleenex Tissue 79c JUMBO PINEAPPLES Box Honey Grahams CARROTS 5$lo about Founders Day celebration. Upon hearing of the days events, in paticularly of the movie and the box of free cracker jacks (which impressed my children the most) their grandpa exclaimed with a twinkle in his -- GBOCCSY- Sunshine an Classified ads make cents $2 a week $6 a month Old Folks" home. (This was Roy in the 1920s. Now it is a thriving com- eyes that Plain City is an extraordinary community, to which I whole heartedly concur. enrich the community. Cheerfully and patiently Packard was, but it should they help while students have been 80 miles per hour return or check out books. or more, and downhill it could Their only pay comes in the have been 90 or 100 m.p.h. form of appreciation and even that they dont seem to The boys had the car wide anticipate or expect. open when they neared the MarJean Childs is the bottom of the freight trains maintained a steady service on the lane. At the very point the road leveled off to a much lesser Probably the first thing grade, and worked its way that came into his mind after west about a mile to another he had bought the car was I named wonder how fast it will go, community Hooper. or so one night about a week The Roy Road had very litso later, he got four of his tle traffic on it as you can friends in the car and started imagine, and the boys wisely, to find out how fast it will go. or so they thought, picked the OLD ROY ROAD road for their speed run. . Now, near Ogden about .as soon as they left the main five or six miles south was a highway the driver gradually included, and one boy crippled for life. It ws a medical road which . at that time pressed down the acwas called The Roy Road". celerator, (keep in mind that problem whether this boy would live, but a stay of two It led from the Salt Lake it was a downhill grade). Road westward to a place We dont know just what years in the hospital put him called Roy which consisted the speed capacity of the on unsteady legs again. of the Mercantile store, probably two or three houses,, a canning factory and the 2656 decorated with candy canes and gingham balls permeated with peppermint oil to give them a nice Christ-mas- y the mess. Kendell Lamar Chet and If I was to get hit by a Marisa Smithy, 1826 N. 650 truck my poor heirs would go E., girl, March 154. Ronald D. and Brown bannanas trying to decode Ginger Williams, 1537 E. my affairs. I reflected. Finally, after using up a 2750 N., boy, March 15. David L. and Peterson half a box of Kleenex, 2 pencils', 154 sheets of paper and Karen N. Nelson, 595 E. 1800 a calculator battery, I N., North Ogden, boy, March 15. thought I had it all straight. balance! (Mynniidht VanDyke Dr. Thomas R., LiSWS , 20 cents off the and Annette Best, 1551 W. amount the bank said I had. Dilly pickets! What had I Farr West Drive, girl, Maruntagle Economics Fair. Everyone seems to give it an thusiastic endorsement who was affiliated with it in any whether as an way, educator, administrator, a student, a parent or businessman. It started with a man with a concern that the kids today do not appreciate or understand the American free enterprise system. Through the Weber District Foun- - businesses are. They think that if you take in a dollar, you keep a dollar. Mr. Brown said that over-yearhe has spent a lot of Morch 22. 1979, Page 3 WE ARE H.OW PRICE CHAMPS! . ' |